Someone wrote me the other day asking if I'd do another post on music after stumbling across my last group of recs in May (see here). I've gotten interested in how some artists are incorporating sampled guitar/rhythm loops into their acts, especially in live performances, so I think I'll point to some of my favorites!

Master of the sampled loop, Imogene Heap in "Just for Now". How the heck she can keep track of all these samples during this performance I have no idea. Absolutely jaw dropping! I also suggest the beautiful "Hide and Seek" which is introduced by NBC's "Scrubs" star, actor Zach Braff BTW.


KT Tunstall's "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" live on the Today Show in 2006. This performance single handedly launched her career in the United States.


Yoav's creepy acoustic "Club Thing". His song "Beautiful Lie" is also really neat with the samples


The Kills industrial-tinged "Getting Down". There's a great feature on them on the Sundance channels' Live from Abbey Road series. Must see TV!


The Yeah Yeah Yeah's "Maps". This is an a great acoustic version. For the an extreme electrified live version go here


Please feel free to leave any suggestions in the comments for interesting music! I'm always looking for new stuff.

Rob

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One of the nurses in the O.R. asked me what I was listening to on my IPOD. Today's detour from medical humdrum features the official Plastic Surgery 101 music endorsement post. I'm always into new music so if you have anything you'd like to suggest, drop it in the comments!

New England hipsters,Vampire Weekend's caribe flavored "A Punk"


The Duke Spirit - "The Step and The Walk"


Weezer's mind-blowingly clever "Pork and Beans" video.


Super songwriter, Steve Earle's definative song about hitting bottom in rehab "Goodbye"


Heavy-metal flamenco duo, Rodrigo y Gabriela tearing up "Diablo Rojo" on Letterman


British "new soul" prodigy, Adele's "Hometown Glory"


Bat For Lashes' trippy retro, "Whats a Girl To Do?". My kids love this BIZARRE video.


The Cardigans , best known for breezy 90's hit "Lovefool" from the movie Romeo & Juliet, bare their teeth on the "I need some fine wine and you, you need to be nicer!"


New Orlean's funk-rockers, Galactic with guest Lyrics Born "What You Need"

Rob

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Unlike some of my old-school professors of surgery, I do not subscribe to the maxim that you have to be miserable and uncomfortable while performing surgery. For me this means having my IPOD hooked up providing background music. Up until a couple years ago music in the OR meant a stack of oft-scratched CD stacks that tended to accumulate in the OR.

The IPOD changed all that & I was a fairly early adopter back when I was training in Louisville,KY (all props to Drs. Marc Salzman & Steve Rowe who were the first people I saw doing this back in 2002-3). Prior to this I had a large CD collection and favored myself a bit of a hipster/music snob for alt-rock and singer-songwriter music. I've now got an Ipod with almost 4000 songs from all over which serves as my "virtual radio station" (WROB as one nurse called it).

I always get asked where my music comes from. Like I said, I had a large preexisting CD collection (which now sit unplayed) that I burned hundreds of songs from. I had discovered NAPSTER a number of months prior to it breaking big in pop culture during 2001 and amassed hundereds of songs before it was declared illeagle. Since then I've been a good citizen and bought a lot of songs thru the I-tunes store.

However, always one to look for bargins, I'm constantly looking for free & legal sources for MP3 downloads. My favorites:

1. PASTE Magazine - a great music magazine with monthly CD's featuring alternative/singer-songwriter types. It's a good source for discovering new artists.




2. Salon.com's Audio-file columns - a lefty media site, that despite (or in spite of) it's politics always is entertaining. Most colums have free download links to up and coming & and a few well-known artists.




3. iTunes store - the weekly download has a lot of really good artists with a free single each week.




4. SPIN Magazine - frequently has free MP3 downloads in the MUSIC section




5. Artists' web sites - many artists' websites will have some free songs. I'm a big fan of Richard Thompson who's website has a number of free things. Also check out the late,great Chris Whitley's homepage for some links to rare tracks. Other personal recs. include Adrian Legg, Chris Smither, Bruce Cockburn

Richard Thompson, Chris Whitley, Chris Smither, Bruce cockburn

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